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Kaspersky Small Office Security 5 (PC)

How to enable or disable notifications on Wi-Fi network vulnerabilities in Kaspersky Small Office Security 5 for Personal Computer

When you are connected to a public or home wireless network, your sensitive information may be available to hackers if the network is not well-protected.

Kaspersky Small Office Security 5 scans wireless networks and notifies you of vulnerabilities. By default, such notifications are disabled in Kaspersky Small Office Security 5. If you use Wi-Fi networks, we recommend that you enable notifications of vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi networks to protect your data.

If there is Kaspersky Secure Connection installed on your computer, you cannot enable notifications of vulnerabilities in wireless networks.

Enable or disable notifications of vulnerabilities in wireless networks

In the main window of Kaspersky Small Office Security 5, click the gear icon.

If you experience difficulties opening the application window, see this guide.

Click Protection, then click Firewall.

In the Firewall settings window, select the Notify of vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi networks check box. To block unprotected transmission of passwords, select the Block and warn about insecure transmission of passwords over the Internet check box.

To disable notifications on vulnerabilities in wireless networks, clear the Notify of vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi networks check box.

Wi-Fi network security measures

When you try to connect to a wireless network, authentication is performed. Authentication is a process of checking whether you can access the network or not. Authentication is performed in accordance with a set of algorithms named the authentication protocol. Wireless networks can be:

Open (available for any user to connect)

Secured (require authorization)

The transmitted data can be encrypted. The authentication and encryption protocols are chosen by the administrator who configures wireless network settings. The authentication and encryption protocols are chosen by the administrator who configures wireless network settings. The user cannot select or change the protocol.

Most common wireless network protocols:

WEP

CKIP

WPA

WPA2 (AES/CCMP)

The protocols differ by their level of security.

Kaspersky Small Office Security identifies the network as secure if it has the WPA2 authentication protocol and the CCMP encryption protocol. All other networks are considered vulnerable.